bust a gut
informalto work very hard or make a big effort to achieve something:
I really busted a gut to get that report finished on time.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Effort and expending energy
- apply
- assiduous
- be running on empty idiom
- concentrated
- conscientious
- doing
- fight
- jump
- mind
- overcompensate
- pains
- painstaking
- painstakingly
- perseverance
- shot
- slugger
- strenuous
- thirsty work
- trial and error
- work up sth
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